Chapter 827: Bottle Grass
Seeing that Grandpa Qi picked out the best parrot here, the shopkeeper was distressed.
Grandpa Qi didn't care how distressed the shopkeeper was, he was teasing the two little parrots. The lazy little parrot was standing on his finger with Little Gray at the moment, and he was not afraid at all.
Grandpa Qi saw that this little parrot liked it quite a bit, and smiled from ear to ear. When he left the store, he suddenly remembered something: "I have a friend near here, I'll go over to see him in the afternoon, and I'll go back by myself in the evening, why don't you just walk around by yourself?"
Since Grandpa Qi said so, Luo Tong has no reason to object. After saying goodbye to Grandpa Qi, she wandered the streets of the flower and bird market alone.
It seems that she hasn't visited the flower and bird market for a long time, and this is a rare time, but she must read enough books!
Thinking like this, Luo Tong suddenly sighed, shopping still needs someone to accompany you to be interesting, but it's a pity that Sheng Qiwu didn't come today. If he came, she could ask Sheng Qiwu to help carry the bag.
Looking at the past like this, Luo Tong can be said to be an eye-opener. Although it is a flower and bird market, it is really all-encompassing.
There are those who sell pets, those who sell flowers, birds, insects and fish, and those who sell strange pets, such as lizards, spiders, snakes, etc., Luo Tong went in and looked at it twice and hurriedly came out.
She was still a little scared of these animals, Xiaoqing was hatched by her own hands, and she was also good-looking, so she was able to accept it without any guilt.
Flowers, birds, flowers and birds, mainly flowers and plants. Luo Tong stopped in front of a shop that specialized in rainforest plants.
The name of the shop is Rainforest, and the decoration is very exotic. Luo Tong walked in, and there were quite a lot of people in the store, many of them were young college students.
Especially with the majority of girls, Luo Tong didn't understand at first, how could so many girls gather here in such a small shop, until she saw the owner.
The shopkeeper was standing inside the counter, and when he raised his head, Luo Tong couldn't help but take a deep breath. really amazed her, there are many handsome men and beauties around her, such as Sheng Qiwu, Jing Yu and others, all of whom are very good-looking.
But this shopkeeper should only be regarded as a boy, who looks like he is about twenty years old. His face is not very mature yet, but this feeling between a boy and a man is the most attractive.
His eyebrows and eyes are too delicate, he looks like a beautiful boy who came out of a comic, there is a feeling of being slender and weak, his limbs are slender, but his eyebrows and eyes are not so androgynous.
All in all, it's a very attractive boy. Luo Tong, who is married, still feels that his heart is shocked when he sees this boy.
It's not that Luo Tong will have any thoughts about him, but this is a kind of impact that a person will be affected when he sees beautiful things, of course, Luo Tong is pure appreciation, without any other meaning.
As for the many girls around the boys, do they have other thoughts, Luo Tong doesn't know, but seeing that the shopkeeper seems to be a little impatient with so many girls surrounding him.
If someone asks a question about tropical plants, he will answer it patiently, but if the girl asks about anything else, he will seem cold.
After admiring the shopkeeper's embarrassment for a while, Luo Tong had the heart to look at the plants in the shop, and no longer looked at the crowd gathered there.
This shop focuses on tropical rainforest plants, and Luo Tong doesn't know much about this, so he took a closer look at it in this shop.
The shopkeeper was very careful, and the names of each plant were written under them, and there were some introductions about them.
Luo Tong had heard that many tropical plants were carnivorous, such as bottle grass, flytrap, pitcher plant, and so on.
For example, what Luo Tong sees now is a bottle grass, and she doesn't actually know it, but when she sees this plant, she understands why she calls her bottle grass.
Its leaves are very peculiar, and the one Luo Tong saw, its leaves are trumpet-shaped, and the leaves are clustered at the base.
On the front side of the leaf is a wing, like an upright tube, with fine hairy growth on the lower part and some liquid at the bottom of the tube.
How does this bottle of grass hunt ground? Luo Tong stared intently at the introduction on the small card.
Bottle grass is an insectivorous plant that uses traps as insect traps, often using nectar to attract insects. On the insect trap of the bottle grass, there are many nectar glands near the mouth of the bottle, which can secrete sap containing fructose.
However, this juice is not a delicacy, but a dangerous poisonous liquor! The juice used to lure insects, in addition to fructose, also contains a substance called coniine, which is used to kill insects. When insects consume this venom, they will become delirious, paralyzed, and die.
Seeing this introduction, Luo Tong immediately felt that this beautiful bottle grass turned out to be quite dangerous, but it would be good if it was planted in the yard, at least it would be insect repellent.
After all, there was relatively little information on the card, so Luo Tong simply leaned on the side of the cabinet and took out his mobile phone to search for the seeds of this bottle of grass.
Bottle grass, belonging to the bottle grass family, this genus is native to Western Europe, North America and Mexico, a total of 8 species, but through the efforts of horticulturists, many hybrids have been bred.
At present, the most popular varieties in the market as commodities are purple bottle grass, and other ornamental species include white-leaved bottle grass, yellow flower bottle grass, large bottle grass, etc.
They prefer warmth, require high humidity, and are suitable for growing in semi-shady, sheltered environments.
There are 17 species in 3 genera. Among them, there are 10 species of Bottleweed, which are distributed in the Atlantic coast of eastern North America, 6 species of Bottleweed, which are distributed in Venezuela and Guyana, and only 1 species of Bottleweed, which are distributed in California, USA. These three genera are occasionally cultivated in China.
Luo Tong carefully looked at the seeds of the bottle grass for a while, and found that this guy was flashy except for the ability to hunt mosquitoes.
In other words, it has almost no economic value, and is more of an ornamental role. She fiddled with the little trumpet-shaped leaf: "Little thing!"
"It's nice to plant it in the garden, but in the summer there will inevitably be mosquitoes, and that's when you can do your job. ”
Although it was flashy to say, Luo Tong didn't think that the bottle grass was waste wood. There is no really useless plant in this world, the difference is only whether you have discovered how to discover its value and use.